Re: What would the tree look like? (was Re: er)
Anthony Towns wrote:
> Why would we have architecture specific examples? The only reason I can
> think of is to help specify a data format that differs across platforms
> (example programs should be given in source).
Think about things like example data files with endian issues.
> But in this case, wouldn't it be more useful to have them all available
> everywhere, so that when you're making use of the examples you can get at
> all the data formats at once, without having to have a machine running
> each different architecture?
I don't see why that'd be useful.
> I'm not convinced the proposal is necessary (the problem's non-existant
> atm afaik), and that even if it was, that it's the right solution.
I have no problem with dropping the proposal if people think it's
unecessary. It can always be revived if it ever actually comes up.
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